Breathtaking!

My wife and I are in Colorado Springs today. I love the mountains. There are so inspiring and awesome to look at. They are a reminder of the faithfulness of God. Psalms 36:6 says "Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the ocean depths." I think God made both the oceans and the mountains to be spectacular and breathtaking. The same way God's rightouesness and justice should be for us.

Rain, Rain

Finally got a couple of good thunderstorms here today. Everything was so brown. Hopefully this will green everything up. Its amazing how I can water my yard and plants and they still have some brown in them. Then God causes it to rain and they perk right up. Wonder what God spikes his rain with. The kids games were cancelled tonight so I just used my Espresso machine and made myself a homemade cappuccino. Pretty good! Worked on Sunday's sermon most of the day today. It's entitled "Potential."

Whoops!

I realized I haven't blogged in awhile. Came home and fixed lunch for my kids and ate with them. They are swimming now. I am excited about this fall at church. I think God is really getting ready to do something if we will listen and be open to changing some things up. That word "change" always gets our defenses up. But without change, nothing good can happen. Mark Batterson talks about this in a way in his book ID:The True You. Basically we cannot have anything new until we are willing to allow the old to die. For instance if you want to go to college, the dream of high school has to die. If you want to get married, the single life dies. I feel like God is moving in the area of discipleship for me. How we do it, what it is not, what it should be. Read a lot of books on this lately. Simple Church, Breaking the Discipleship Code, Organic Church. Read Colossians, Ephesians, and will be reading Hebrews and 1 Peter to see what discipleship looked like in the first century church. What we need to adjust and improve. Also the way Jesus did ministry many times was so much different than how we do it today. Kicking around the idea of a coffeehouse. A lot of really great ideas, just need to have God put it all together. Can't wait! Exciting!